PLDT and Smart Communications Welcomes Kris Aquino

It looks like the Queen of all Media is now connected to the BIGGEST network. She's not only endorsing it, but she's walking the talk as she's using PLDT Home FIBR plan and Smart Communications LTE network in her business, at home and for her boys. Before she arrived, executives from PLDT told us about their milestones and talked about the current status of the network and took pride in confirming a few things especially the improvements they made in the past year. 

Alex Caeg, Head of Wireless Consumer Division for Smart says "We're happy that Open Signal has already released the report has increased it's edge of LTE Coverage nationwide. We have 60% advantage over our competitors and I think it's a big thing to enable our subscribers and educate them about this revolution to tell them about LTE. For us to bring Filipinos to the digital era, we need to upgrade them to a 4G device, to make sure their sim cards support it, in Smart, Sun Cellular and TNT, we have all these offers that people can now enjoy. This way, more people can enjoy it now. By next year, we would have 90% of our network supporting LTE. This will empower Filipinos and make everything accesible to them. iFlix, iWantTV, will now have 99 peso packages. We also are launching more Smartspots nationwide to enable communities get 100mbps capable connection, so they can feel the power of LTE at most food parks in the metro, and also in their homes if they are on our network. Our brand ambassadors will talk about it later especially on SUN and how they will move to 4G networks even for a minimal fee in these offerings. The journey has begun, it goes beyond the personalities in this room."

Marc Nelson hosted the event and I specifically heard him being invited to Kris Aquino's house so he could experience the unbelievable wifi connection they have at home. Ms. Kris laughs this off as an excuse to teach her how to swim, Marc says YES!

Speaking of people, we saw celebrities that evening which includes Jericho Rosales, Franco Laurel, Tweetie De Leon, Maxine Medina and Jennifer Hammond.

We also saw Camille Pratts, Isabel Oli and their kids who also endorses PLDT.

Spotted Vic Sotto with soon to be Mom Pauline Luna Sotto who endorses SUN Cellular.

Vic Sotto went to the center of the room and was a little quirky, he says "I'm glad and honored that I'm part of the SUN family because I play Candy Crush lol. I use data, and this relaunch means it's not just voice calls and texting, but means a LOT of people will be using data. I lurk in Instagram, even if I don't post, I see people. Congratulations to PLDT and Smart, again I'm glad to be part of the SUN family."

PLDT executives then explained "We started fiber in a few key cities and municipalities now, even far flung areas. The premier villages have it, this will enable the our consumers to have the digital lifestyle. We have condo units that don't have this yet but we're moving, and we have people experience FIBR and stay happy about it. In BGC, we have mostly all residential buildings now FIBR ready so if you live here, you're lucky! You should all be on PLDT Home tomorrow, also be connected with our streaming sites tonight. ROKU is also now available, so there's no reason why you're not enjoying our services. We want all our 2 Million homes to transfer from DSL to FIBR because there's a LOT to enjoy from this faster connection."

Ms. Kris Aquino then was introduced, she told us about how she maintains a smart home and utilize PLDT Home FIBR and LTE when she's mobile saying "Let's all admit it, traffic is terrible. I checked who is watching me and most of them are millenials and they watch me through phones. Connections have improved so much and they watch me through mobile these days and LTE doesn't buffer on me. I also love the roaming charges because it's 499 a day. The other network charges more, so you see why they got me? Haha. We need to be connected. Thank you to PLDT and Smart for making us all connected. You are the first company to invest in iFlix so I'm going there too. PLDT is an innovator, we have to give them that!"

Here are some snippets of Ms. Kris Aquino's appearance. This is her way of coming back to PLDT and Smart who has continued to believe in her and her brand.

Congratulations Ms. Kris Aquino, PLDT and Smart Communications! This surely will be fun!

Charmer Chienna Filomeno Joins Vivo Family

She's pretty and people have noticed. This 21 year old lady is no stranger to social media as she's racked up over a million followers to boot. She's Chienna, and now she's part of Vivo's newest endorsers. This comes as welcome news to the showbiz newcommer as she juggles through life making a living, traveling and her passion music. She's already learning how to be a DJ these days and Vivo Philippines saw value in these endeavors. The smart phone manufacturer is taking her wings to fly as she joins the brand's multitude of endorsers and she's never been happy being part of the Vivo Family.

She currently uses the V7+ to take mostly all her photos and why not it's got clear and natural looking outputs when she posts it on her channels, where she's obviously been doing very good. She personally loves the built in filters which she says was very easy to learn when you've got the phone in your hand. The Bokeh effect is just outstanding because it could all take the attention away from distractions, and keep your eyes tuned to this lovely lass since September. You probably saw how her shots have changed because it's got more drama, more time to shoot with less post processing which she dubs is a must for any selfie centric millenial. The phone boasts the V7+ 24 MP clearer selfie which can battle the world's best phone cameras and they claim it's the world's first that's got an LED flash and proprietary algorithms so you get those shots on point, when you want it, when you need it.

Chienna also used this phone on her recent trip to Bangkok and pleasures how superb the sound came out from her phone, a feat that Vivo says is possible using the V7+ high fidelity sound feature.This would really make any music lover to enjoy a phone that not only has a camera that can do the job, but sound so great too. She urges her fans to make the smart choice and choose Vivo V7+ for themselves because she's already seen, felt and heard it. Chienna will be part of the mall tours that will end this last quarter of 2017, so stay tuned to their channels if you want to see her in the flesh and fresh! Visit the Vivo website at www.vivo.com/ph or their channels https://www.facebook.com/VivoPhil/ or Instagram @vivophil and Twitter too @vivo_phil. 

Now isn't that neat?

LOCALLY Launches Buco Pandan and Buco Lychee Flavors

It's always a good day to hydrate and if you're out in the sun most of the time, water just don't cut it nowadays. I often don't drink water because I don't like how it tastes like. I'm not a fan of plain jane drinks, but I've always made it a point I do have enough so I could survive and live another day. My usual alternative are juices, and I don't like those super sweet ones. I want it more natural, without having to resort to powdered juice drinks because that too is laden with sugar. We're trying so hard to live healthy and I'm glad life is easy because there's Coconut water available in groceries and convenience stores in the Philippines. Mind you, it's pure organic!

There's a new one in town called LOCALLY Merci Buco (which is a play on the French word for Thank You!), and I absolutely like the original variant. This actually comes in a separate line than the juices they already have in the market. Remember the ones I mentioned in our Luneta visit with Nutriasia? They're the same people who released this, and again it's super good!

They also released two new flavors this month called LOCALLY BUCO LYCHEE and LOCALLY BUCO PANDAN. These fruits and leaf flavor are quite common in the Philippines and as you've seen in the other LOCALLY juices (Mangosteenie Miney Mo, Tamarind My Bell, Dalandan It Again, Guyabano-body but You, Calamansi’z the Day, Pomelong and Lasting Love and Save the Best for Sineguelast), they've made sure you're right at home for every 330ml and 1 L pack of LOCALLY MERCI BUCO.  Still all 100% natural, you won't have to worry about artificial flavors they put in these drinks at all. 

It's available in Rustan's Supermarket, PureGold and Robinsons Supermarket branches nationwide. You get the nice electrolytes, vitamins and minerals in each tetra pack as you would in a normal coconut because it's  the first of it's kind to be certified by US Department of Agriculture. You can't really beat that! Visit Locally Philippines on Facebook and @LocallyPH on Instragram for more information about these drinks!

You've got 3 easy choices, now head on to shops and hoard them before they're gone! Drink up!

Gabbi Garcia Releases Debut Single "All I Need"

She struck gold a couple months back and she's not letting go of opportunities coming her way. Yes it's Gabbi Garcia and she's now taking a shot at recording with this debut single called "All I Need" which she also self produced. It's about overcoming personal struggles and how to ge through it. She's had a hand in all the elements of this song which she also worked with her friends, which is more of a passion project more than anything else. 

She also has 2 magazine covers this last quarter. For her Inside Showbiz cover she says "It was a very light shoot and I talked about the process of making music. It's available at the FLIP100 app under mega." For the MEGA shoot she adds "It was my first time there, it was a dream for me. We also made a fashion film for One Mega Group where my cover was taken at the French Riviera. It's my first Mega Style cover, while the fashion film will be released over October ends." 

"This first single, I really enjoyed doing this and I can't believe how warm people have been receiving this because it's number 3 now on the iTunes Philippines chart. I wrote it with Christian Bautista and he really pushed me to make my own songs. It's personal, it's always like that, Christian and I did this after a short event in Eat Bulaga, and he asked me to create one because he knew this was my first love. We started by writing the lyrics, it was by impulse and did this in acoustic. This is a bit RnB that's chill, perfect for the generation now. My sister also sings and we both have courses related to it in school, so that's one of the inspirations. When I thought I was forgetting myself, that's what I wanted to write about. I wasn't going through anything in particular, I am currently writing an EP first then an album. I would love to collaborste with people."

With Ruru "I have seen his photos, you mean his body? Yes I am so proud of seeing his development, he's worked so hard for his body, imagine how payatot he was back in the day and now look at him, if it provides more confidence, I will support him 100%. He congratulated me last night when my music came out and I know he's proud of me too, he knows I have worked so hard for this."

Gabbi adds "We chose Hong Kong because it has that grip, those neon lights, it's different so we did it there. It's created by a team, it's my friends, really young artists at Limitless Productions with Khalil Ramos. The idea for the story was just a collab and they've done really good things in the past which won awards already and I'm confident about these people. They're really good."

Thank you also to Acne Care, Pantene and Gabbi Garcia's sponsors for giving us stuff for personal care. She's Asia's Pantene girl remember? :) 

Gabbi Garcia's single All I Need is available in iTunes, Deezer, Apple Music and all digital stores. Watch out for her Mega Style and Scout mag covers this November too.

She's striking while the iron is hot!

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